Namogoo’s original business was blocking unauthorized ads on ecommerce Web sites, one small corner of the ad fraud universe.  After years of growth, that universe is finally shrinking, according to this report from DoubleVerify.  Wide adoption of preventative measures has resulted in lower fraud rates, higher viewability, and fewer brand safety violations.  APAC and Latin America have shown particular improvements.  Download for country-by-country detail.

If robots wrote the news, would they write about other robots?  I ask because there’s been a suspicious burst of items about AI-powered writing tools, just when live journalists might have set things on autopilot so they could sneak out early for the holiday.  Top of the list: writing-suggestion platform Grammarly just raised $200 million at a $13 billion valuation, doubling total funding to $400 million.